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by immibis 10mo ago
AI will be better at propagating copies of itself than you at yourself. In that sense, it will be more efficient and you will be obsolete. When thinking about evolution we should be careful not to confuse description with prescription. Evol
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by immibis 10mo ago
Why not call it /local instead of /usr? Along p_ing's lines I'd rename /var to something else, possibly not /srv because it's not just for servers, but it could be /data
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by immibis 10mo ago
I understand /usr/local to be for anything not managed by your distribution but following the standard system layout (e.g. Python that you compiled yourself) while /opt is used for things that are (relatively) self-contained
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by immibis 10mo ago
Wayland has a philosophy of "every frame is perfect", which means fixing every race condition. However, X11 doesn't have this philosophy. If the window manager is slow and doesn't respond to a notification that a window
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by immibis 10mo ago
if you have to break the item and then send it back, what did you gain from the scam?
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by immibis 10mo ago
You know DDoS attacks are illegal, right? If you have proof that OpenAI is DDoSing your site, go sue them for millions of dollars.
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by immibis 10mo ago
If someone is paying you to implement a security vulnerability and you've told them and you don't have liability, you just do it. That's how capitalism works. You do whatever people give you money for.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Fun story: SO officially states comments are ephemeral and can be deleted whenever, so I deleted some of my comments. I was then banned. After my ban expired I asked on the meta site if it was okay to delete comments. I was banned again for
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by immibis 10mo ago
It's also disconnected incentives. SO users get numbers to go up by taking moderation actions so of course they do that. Also you literally get banned from reviewing questions if you don't flag enough of them to be closed. These a
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by immibis 10mo ago
Imagine you start a business in another country where the law says your business assets will be seized if you don't file tax form 123(a) before August. That is to say, non-filers don't have any business property rights. And you do
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by immibis 10mo ago
If you're still treating Reddit, especially large subreddits, as a serious source of information rather than an extremely manipulated outlet of 90% propaganda bots, that is quite foolish. Maybe I should make a website where example.com
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by immibis 10mo ago
Yes, I agree, it's very traditional for businesses to use the behaviour of their software as an accountability sink, as if they didn't create that behaviour to begin with, don't have the ability to change it, and don't h
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by immibis 10mo ago
It used to be the case Reddit itself would run spambots, and if you reported them you'd be banned. Also they have a habit of, if a subreddit isn't moderated how they like, finding excuses to ban the moderators and then either ban
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by immibis 10mo ago
You pay a lot of money for a special contract, or you plug it into the internet. Whether from incompetence or malice, Microsoft would strongly prefer you did the latter.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Was it the city government of Munich? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21497372
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by immibis 10mo ago
Anticheat blocks Linux deliberately . Its whole point is to check if you're running an unmodified copy of Microsoft Windows. Linux is not one, so unless it gets really really good at deception, it won't pass those checks. It does
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by immibis 10mo ago
Good. Microsoft should have absolutely no legal right to stop people from fixing, breaking, or otherwise modifying their own computers, including by installing buggy "security" placebos.
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by immibis 10mo ago
You can totally subnet from /64, you just can't use SLAAC. The packet header doesn't care about your address allocation scheme. At the same time SLAAC is the reason your ISP doesn't give you a /128.
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by immibis 10mo ago
If your ISP delivered you a packet with a destination address of 192.168.0.5, there's a good chance your router would deliver it to that device without consulting the port forwarding table. In this way, NAT isn't a firewall and yo
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by immibis 10mo ago
Almost every network in existence runs on layers of tunnelling, so you can run arbitrary protocols over fixed hardware. We tunnel IP over Ethernet and then we don't have to replace our switches to use new IP versions or features. Most
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by immibis 10mo ago
I interpreted it to be about vendor contracts. Suppose you're setting up a new thing and you have a choice of vendors. They're all about the same but one of them supports IPv6. You're more likely to pick that one.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Some of the other threads about this have been removed, and not for being duplicates.
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by immibis 10mo ago
No, it's not.
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by immibis 10mo ago
If the USA killed 8M of its own citizens (which did happen) should Brazil kidnap Trump?
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by immibis 10mo ago
All they have to do is keep power for ten years and keep renewables being illegal (Trump already banned offshore wind turbines because he can see some from one of his overseas golf courses)
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by immibis 10mo ago
Both countries involved are currently dictatorships. Consider the role reversal: Would it be good if Maduro invaded the USA and kidnapped Trump? Why or why not?
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by immibis 10mo ago
The UN permanent security council members are (or were meant to be) precisely the countries that are so powerful they can choose to invade you and nobody can stop them. The hope was that by letting them veto you, they'll veto you inste
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by immibis 10mo ago
Name some times protests worked, then. It wasn't civil rights, nor was it Stonewall (which was a riot).
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by immibis 10mo ago
Protest has never stopped a government from doing what it wanted. Not a single time in history. When it's appeared to work, that has one of two causes: either the government didn't really care very much to begin with, or it was th
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by immibis 10mo ago
His defenders kept, and keep, using it as an excuse.

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